school supply shopping

The dreaded triple-S. I started the morning excited! til the kids went wacko on me! Buy me this.. buy me that... can I have these ice pops? can I have Frosted Flakes? Can I have this ($4) notebook instead of this (35 cent) one??? Can I have the Lego Star Wars shirt, I don't have one like this??! Never mind that it was a size 4 shirt & Luke wears a 10. I knew we were out of control when Luke said, "I need underwear too" and threw 3 packages of size 18-20 in the cart without even thinking... SOOO... everyone at Walmart thinks I'm nuts... the kids and I had a little heart-to-heart in the little girls underwear section. I'm sure Luke was embarrassed. WHOA... but NOT as embarrassed as I was when we left. We finally got back to the car an hour later and I found this note on my windshield:

"When you threw your car into reverse & didn't even look behind you -- you almost hit me, my two children & another lady. Please be more careful!"

I am reading it as I type. And still mortified. When I read it, Luke said, "oh yeah mom, I remember when we were parking a lady threw her arms into the air and made a mad face" That was information that COULD'VE been used at the time it occurred. An apology would've done the lady well. Now there will forever be some mom who tells all her friends about the psycho mom with the big-ol' suv and mom haircut mowing people down in the walmart parking lot. I so don't like being a stereotype nor do I like causing others harm. Not to mention, I probably ruined her day!!! I'm so grateful no one was hurt because of my distracted driving. And I was not even texting or talking on the phone. Or yelling at anyone. ;0)